While editing The Unbearable Lightness of Being in France, Academy Award-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch came across a reference to Italian writer Curzio Malaparte’s description of ...

Walter Murch, the acclaimed editor and sound designer of films such as “American Graffiti,” “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with the Vision Award – ...

On December 11, 1967, after giving a talk at a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture fundraiser at the River Club in New York City, the 60-year-old Walter Tandy Murch suffered a heart attack and ...

Twenty-three years ago, Walter Murch, A&S '65, became fascinated by the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler through reading The Sleepwalkers, Arthur Koestler's 1959 history of Western cosmology.

In 1971, George Lucas‘ debut feature "THX 1138" was released to decent reviews but empty theaters - Variety's reviewer presciently predicted that Lucas‘ dystopian vision of a future dominated by ...

Watching a documentary on film history, editor Walter Murch was struck by how different cinematographers tended to frame faces in close-ups similarly. “I noticed something peculiar,” he said. “No ...

Coup 53, a tough-minded documentary debuting online today in the UK and United States from writer/director Taghi Amirani and three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch, unearths key new information about ...

This story was produced by Steve Lickteig. In the world of filmmaking, actors and directors dominate the spotlight. The people who actually assemble the film frame by frame and beat by beat toil in ...

Three-time Academy Award winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch was the editor and co-writer of the new conspiracy documentary about the 1953 overthrow of a duly elected leader in Iran in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Murch’s career has embraced first sound and then film editing, pursuing a concept of audio-visual composition that treats the two ...